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Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP)
Grant Program Website:
http://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/conservation-programs/conservatio…Support Agency:
Program Contact:
Maryland State Farm Service Agency
Maryland FSA State Office
339 Busch's Frontage Road, Suite 104
Annapolis, MD 21409
339 Busch's Frontage Road, Suite 104
Annapolis, MD 21409
Is this a rolling date? :
YesDates Link:
RollingPurpose:
An enhancement to the CRP program, Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) hopes to enroll 100,000 acres statewide.Support Type:
BothAvailable Funding:
$100 per acre state signing bonus, 50% cost-share to install eligible practices and an annual land rental payment that includes both the current soil rental rate plus an additional incentive payment that is 150% of the local soil rental rate.Restoration Activity:
Riparian BuffersEligibility:
Landowners; land must have been in commodity crops for two out of the last five most recent years.<< Back to WRA Directory
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
